obama from doing a little campaigning. he'll appear on abc's "the view," today, in a pretaped interview. >> would it be disastrous for the country, if mitt romney were elected? >> we can survive a lot. but there are people that don't want to just survive. we want everybody to thrive. >> reporter: president obama has no scheduled bilateral meetings today at the u.n. republicans say the president should have used the time he spent taping "the view," yesterday, meeting with world leaders. john and sunny? >> tahman bradley in washington. thank you so much. >>> well, iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad in new york, for the u.n. session, is shrugging off threats of military action over his country's nuclear program. he claims his country is only trying to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes. he says he's not worried about a potential strike by israel. ahmadinej ahmadinejad's visit is prompting demonstrations outside of the hotel with are he's staying. >>> japanese coast guard ships used water canons against taiwanese fishing